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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Wrapping up 2012

It's almost the end of 2012... the year just kinda sneaks up on you! It's time to wrap up my overall goals from 2012! I have my monthly goals, but I also made a list of year goals. I don't do resolutions, just "things to do" in the new year. Much easier!

Goals for 2012

Writing Goals –

“Down in the Creek”

* Hear back from waiting agent/publishing company (May 2012)

* Revise – do a new round of editing (March 2012)

* Consider self-publishing for book

“To Love Without Hope”

* Complete another round of editing before January 23rd

* Modify 300 word pitch, create new excerpt

* Enter in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel (Young Adult Fiction) on January 23rd

* If doesn’t do well in the contest, query a few more agents

* Decide if self-publishing is a good idea

“The Secret”

* Write a second draft, removing non-essential parts and changing the ending

"Down in the Creek", "To Love Without Hope", and "The Secret"
I've been working on revising these three and rewriting, but I have finally decided I want to put them on the "shelf" for a while. I like them and someday I'd like to publish them, if I can fix what is wrong with them. It's not that that are bad, but the writing is not at a level I would want published if it is to show the quality of my writing for people to read. They are also YA Christian Fiction and I've decided I want to write YA Fantasy and Urban Fantasy. It's something I enjoy more. I will get back to them someday.

"Nameless" and "Unless"
I finished writing Nameless and I'm getting closer to writing the end of Unless. I decided to make them into one book, though I haven't decided if they will get another title or not. I am very happy how they are turning out and I'm excited to finish! I want to be able to publish this someday and I plan on finish writing Unless in the beginning of next year.

NaNoWriMo Novel - "Defiance"
I enjoyed writing this and it only took twelve days! It's my first YA Urban Fantasy and though there are many problems with it, I am hopefully going to revise it sometime next year.

I'm very happy with how my goals turned out this year and I think I accomplished quite a bit of writing. I did write two novels this year. :) I'm happy with that.